09/13/07 : Japan Hey… Did one of those small intimate performances last night. Most of the whole room couldnt even speak english and here I am explaining every song and emotion I was going through in order to write it. Funny thing is… they felt me…regardless, they felt me. What an incredible gift music is. There is something for everyone. It comes in all shapes and styles..it maybe the closest to freedom we’ll ever get. hmmmmmmmmm. Nonetheless, I’m DUMB tired! it’s early but, I gotta get some rest. just wanted to check in. say hey. Hope you’re good. Gonna start doing some buzz shows soon…. oooohhhhhhh! I CANT WAIT FOR YOU TO HEAR ALL THIS MUSIC! talk soon Current Mood: Sleepy Currently Listening to: Youssou N’Dour |
Alicia Keys Comes to Asia!
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September 14th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
HEY ALICIA MAN I AM FEELING YOUR NEW JOINT, NOT FOR SURE WHAT EXPERIED YOU TO WRITE IT BUT IT HAS A PLACE IN MY HEART, I AM GOING THREW ALOT WITH MY HUSBAND AND TEMPTAION IS A MOTHER UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES WITH HIM BEING LOCKED UP AND ALL BUT MAN NO ONE NO ONE NO ONE CAN GET IN THE WAY OF WHAT I AM FEELING.. YA ALREADY KNOW GIRL! THAT’S MY HEART AND NOW I HAVE A SONG TO EXPRESS THAT TO HIM. THANKS LOVE!!!
September 15th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Hey Alicia,
Im diggin your new song, its off the charts. You wanted to know who came up with the whole time zone thing, so thanks to wikipedia heres your answer:
History
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was established in 1675, when the Royal Observatory was built, as an aid to determine longitude at sea by mariners. The first time zone in the world was established by British railways on December 1, 1847 — with GMT hand-carried on chronometers. About August 23, 1852, time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Even though 98% of Great Britain’s public clocks were using GMT by 1855, it was not made Britain’s legal time until August 2, 1880. Some old clocks from this period have two minute hands — one for the local time, one for GMT.[1] This only applied to the island of Great Britain, and not to the island of Ireland.
On November 2, 1868, New Zealand (then a British colony) officially adopted a standard time to be observed throughout the colony, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitude 172° 30′ East of Greenwich, that is 11 hours 30 minutes ahead of GMT. This standard was known as New Zealand Mean Time.
Timekeeping on the American railroads in the mid nineteenth century was somewhat confused. Each railroad used its own standard time, usually based on the local time of its headquarters or most important terminus, and the railroad’s train schedules were published using its own time. Some major railroad junctions served by several different railroads had a separate clock for each railroad, each showing a different time; the main station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for example, kept six different times. The confusion for travelers making a long journey involving several changes of train can be imagined.
Charles F. Dowd proposed a system of one-hour standard time zones for American railroads about 1863, although he published nothing on the matter at that time and did not consult railroad officials until 1869. In 1870, he proposed four ideal time zones (having north–south borders), the first centered on Washington, D.C., but by 1872 the first was centered 75°W of Greenwich, with geographic borders (for example, sections of the Appalachian Mountains). Dowd’s system was never accepted by American railroads. Instead, U.S. and Canadian railroads implemented their own version on Sunday, November 18, 1883, also called “The Day of Two Noons”, when each railroad station clock was reset as standard-time noon was reached within each time zone. The zones were named Intercolonial, Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific. Within one year, 85% of all cities with populations over 10,000, about 200 cities, were using standard time. A notable exception was Detroit, Michigan (which is nearly half-way between the meridians of eastern time and central time, though actually a little closer to central), which kept local time until 1900, then tried Central Standard Time, local mean time, and Eastern Standard Time before a May 1915 ordinance settled on EST and was ratified by popular vote in August 1916. This hodgepodge ended when Standard zone time was formally adopted by the U.S. Congress on 19 March 1918 as the Standard Time Act.
Time zones were first proposed for the entire world by Canada’s Sir Sandford Fleming in 1876 as an appendage to the single 24-hour clock he proposed for the entire world (located at the center of the Earth and not linked to any surface meridian). In 1879 he specified that his universal day would begin at the anti-meridian of Greenwich (now called 180°), while conceding that hourly time zones might have some limited local use. He continued to advocate his system at subsequent international conferences. In October 1884, the International Meridian Conference did not adopt his time zones because they were not within its purview. The conference did adopt a universal day of 24 hours beginning at Greenwich midnight, but specified that it “shall not interfere with the use of local or standard time where desirable”.
Nevertheless, most major countries had adopted hourly time zones by 1929. Today, all nations use standard time zones for secular purposes, but they do not all apply the concept as originally conceived. Newfoundland, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Burma, the Marquesas, as well as parts of Australia use half-hour deviations from standard time, and some nations, such as Nepal and the Chatham Islands use quarter-hour deviations.
bet you werent expecting an essay like that, but the answer is in there somewhere. Anyway, keep bringing it. Let me know how i can get that 20 bucks!
September 18th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
A Keys…What up? I love you girl! I have always been a fan and have all you albums. I love the new song! Its exactly how I feel about the love of my life. I feel your words and music down deep. I also like the Wild Horses you did with Adam Lavine. You are a beautiful and amazing individual. Thank you. Keep the music flowing!
September 28th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
God blessed you with an amazing voice! Never stop singing! How did you first start? I wanna sing someday.=)
November 15th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Hey Keys,
I just want you to know how much I love you music, I hope you get the change to read this, because I think that you are you are real unlike some of the other female artist out here. All the attention you get, you still seem not to compromise who you are as a person. I wish more female singer out here was more like you. Because the young girls today won’t want to sell there body and soul to men, think that’s this is the only way there going to make it in life.You have so much class and I just want to Thank God for someone like you. Your new album make me want to be a better peron and really love like it’s my last time on this earth. I don’t mean to make this all long winded, but I was wondering if you can help me get my group for young girl to learn that they can get far in life without having sex and dressing all trashy. I want these girls to know thaty can make, with there minds and not what’s between there legs. I don’t just want this to be a group in my town but nationwide. I hope to hear from you soon. May God continue to bless someone who as humble as you are. God’s beauty
November 18th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
hey alicia keys this is the first time i ever wrote something to you and i play the piano like you and i just want to say your the best piano player ever!
November 18th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
hey alicia keys
whats good your the best! I want to be as good as when i play the piano, “im learning if i anit got you” now so peace out!